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The Rocket Summer Set EP Release


10/12/2009
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(Island) After more than two years of non-stop touring as The Rocket Summer, frontman, songwriter and multi-instrumental mastermind Bryce Avary has finally been able to put the finishing touches on his second major label album release on Island Records, Of Men And Angels, due to arrive early next year. Single "You Gotta Believe" will premier on AlternativePress.com on October 19th. Fans can hear early teases of the song on the site week of October 12th.

In advance of the album release, a 4 song EP will be released digitally on October 27th, You Gotta Believe, produced by Bryce Avary and co-produced and engineered by CJ Eiriksson, who served as engineer on Do You Feel, the first major label album release by TRS on Island.

Oct. 25 Oklahoma City, OK Bricktown Events Center
27 Omaha/Kansas City BeaumontClub
28 Des Moines/Omaha Peoples Court
29 Minneapolis, MN Station 4
30 Milwaukee, WI The Rave
31 Chicago, IL House of Blues

Nov. 1 St. Louis, MO Pops
3 Detroit, MI Orbit Room
4 Grand Rapids, MI Clutch Cargo�s
5 Cincinnati, OH Bogarts
6 Washington, DC The Tavern
7 Baltimore, Maryland Sonar
8 Pittsburgh, PA Diesel
9 New York, NY Highline Ballroom
11 Farmingdale, NY The Crazy Donkey
12 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
13 Allentown, PA Crocodile Rock Cafe
14 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero
15 Boston, MA House of Blues
18 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
20 ST Petersburg, FL State Theatre
21 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room
22 Lake Buena Vista, FL House of Blues
24 Memphis, TN New Daisy Theater
26 Dallas, TX House of Blues
27 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit
28 Houston, TX Meridian
29 Pharr, TX JAGZ Entertainment

Dec. 1 Tuscon, AZ Rialto Theatre
2 San Diego, CA Soma
3 Los Angeles, CA Avalon Hollywood
4 San Francisco, CA Grand Ballroom at The Regency
5 Anaheim, CA House of Blues

EP will include tracks from the upcoming album and bonus song, "You Gotta Believe", "Hills and Valleys", "Light" and "The Fight". Two days before the You Gotta Believe EP release, the Rocket Summer returns to the road, for a 34-city North American tour with Forever the Sickest Kids, opening October 25th in Oklahoma City, ending six weeks later in San Francisco on December 5th. (Please see tour dates below.)

Of Men And Angels and You Gotta Believe follow-up The Rocket Summer's Island debut, Do You Feel, released July 2007. After the release of "So Much Love," as an advance track, the album's title tune single "Do You Feel" eventually broke through at Alternative and Modern Rock radio in the summer of 2008, while TRS headlined the sold out Alternative Press tour and graced the cover of AP's magazine as well. TRS then headed out on a successful six-week North American tour with Phantom Planet, Secret Handshake, and the Morning Light, plus two sold out headline tours in the UK! When describing TRS, Austin City Limits states; "We're not talking simple acoustic solo stuff here, The music Bryce makes as The Rocket Summer is lush, explosively catchy and artful power pop that hints at a new Brian Wilson or Prince in the making. Keep an eye out on this one."



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